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The position of Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the Virginia General Assembly. [1]Originally, the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without outside consultation by the General Assembly, usually for one year, in a process that has been described being "more of a political thing".
Guy Carleton Drewry (May 21, 1901 - August 3, 1991) was an American writer and poet. He served a life appointment as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1970 to 1991. His novels include The Writhen Wood, Cloud Above Clocktime, and To Love that Well.
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda [1] (born 1946) was named Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] by the Governor, Tim Kaine, on June 26, 2006.She succeeded Rita Dove and served in this position from June 2006 – July 2008.
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Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] from 2004 to 2006. Since 1989, she has been teaching at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville , where she held the chair of Commonwealth Professor of English from 1993 to 2020; as of 2020, she holds ...
In July 2020, then Governor Ralph Northam appointed Luisa A. Igloria the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020–22); she is the 4th poet of color to receive this distinction. The Academy of American Poets awarded her 1 of 23 Poet Laureate Fellowships in 2021.
Erskine J. Poetry Prize, 2004 for "Second Bearing, 1919" [23] Witter Bynner Fellowship from Library of Congress, 2005 [24] Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2006 [25] Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2008–2010 [15] [26] Library of Virginia, Virginia Women in History, 2009 [27] Fellowship of Southern Writers, Inaugural Winner, Donald Justice Award for ...
George Palmer Garrett (June 11, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American poet and novelist. [1] He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia [2] from 2002 to 2004. [3] His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun.